"Long before the canals of Venice sprung up in the swamps of the Adriatic, the ancient Egyptians are said to have used their own waterways to build an entire city into the Nile River. Now at last, we might actually find it.

Thebes may have really did once resembled an ancient Venice, with canals and waterways dug into the area surrounding the Nile to allow barges to easily cross from one side of the city."